Blood transfusions for children are safe. However, it may help to know about possible complications.
Most blood cancers—leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma—are typically the result of abnormality and excessive reproduction of white blood cells.
Diagnosing leukemia in its earliest stages can improve a patient’s prognosis. An accurate pathological diagnosis helps guide treatment.
Blood transfusions are safer today than ever before in the history of modern medicine.
Cancer of the plasma cells is known as multiple myeloma, or myeloma. Myeloma is a rare type of blood cancer.
Most kidneys and livers used in transplantation come from individuals who have died, but this doesn’t provide enough organs. So living donors are needed.
Acute myeloid leukemia is a blood cancer that usually develops and advances rapidly.
Chronic myeloid leukemia is a cancer of the blood cells in which large numbers of white blood cells are produced.
Lymphomas are cancers caused by white blood cells that reproduce rapidly and uncontrollably. Two types are Hodgkin lymphoma and non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
Chronic lymphocytic leukemia is a type of blood cancer in which large numbers of lymphocytes, a type of white blood cell, are produced.